Ask HN: Roast My Landing Page
Hi HN,
We often get a bad rap for being too critical of newly formed projects. However, I think this is actually a strength of ours. There is always going to be the dropbox or airbnb that we completely miss, but for 99% of other startups, I think our tendency to give ruthless feedback is actually net helpful.
In that vein, I'd like to invite HN to roast the landing page of my newest project. My co-founder and I did spend a lot of time on it, but that's no reason to go easy on us.
Let it rip!
https://beamanalytics.io/
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 71.6 ms ] threadYour pricing seems to imply it's a one-off payment of $11 btw
Also, analytics is plural, so your major headline should be "...analytics that are..."
The only new thing I'll mention is the middle pricing should be called something default and innocuous like "Standard" rather than "Commercial" that sounds like more than I should need.
2) Who guarantees the GDPR etc. compliance? Did you work with an independent, outside law firm to confirm compliance?
Not sure if that's a deficieny in Noir or your site.
And (that's typical for modern landing pages) there's quite a lot of vertical whitespace. But I'm from the dense display usage crowd, so take this with a grain of salt.
Your front page loads fast (like, lightning fast), looks like a "real" SaaS and doesn't go overboard with dumb shit like animations.
I immediately realise what your product is and does without needing to interact with the page in any sense.
In short, the page itself is really good. The only thing that jumps out is that there's maybe too much top padding on each section (set your resolution to 1280 x 800 and click the "pricing" button on the top, you'll see what I mean).
As for the pricing tiers themselves, they just seem a bit odd.
The $11/mo plan doesn't seem as transparent as it could be (Is it per site or per user? How many views are included per month). Paying for excess views also scares the shit out of me, since there's no limit to the amount of hits you can generate if you go viral.
For the free plan, 100k views is a lot for a small business site. I don't run analytics, but even when I did I'd see less than 1/10th of that traffic for a fairly popular eCommerce page that was generating thousands per month (until, as hinted at before, I got to the top of Hackaday and then suddenly blew through that limit in 2 days).
Some details as to how it integrates into a site would be nice. Show me some code snippets! Also, and this is tangential: how do stats get collected if a visitor browses with JS disabled?
Also your logo[0] looks very similar to IceDrive's[1] logo. Links below for comparison.
[0] https://beamanalytics.io/favicon.svg
[1] https://icedrive.net/
[1] https://icedrive.net/favicon.ico